{"id":96439,"date":"2026-01-11T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/96439\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:52:09","slug":"singer-yeison-jimenez-killed-in-plane-crash-after-revealing-fatal-premonition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/96439\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Yeison Jimenez killed in plane crash after revealing fatal premonition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Colombian pop star and his entire band died in a plane crash before a show Saturday \u2014 after he revealed a series of dreams in which he predicted that his aircraft would kill him.<\/p>\n<p>Yeison Jimenez, 34, was flying to a concert in Colombia\u2019s second-largest city, Medellin, on Saturday when the light aircraft carrying him and his musicians crashed and burst into flames, moments after take-off from a small airfield in the central Colombian town of Paipa,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elcolombiano.com\/colombia\/accidente-yeison-jimenez-que-se-sabe-AE32415959\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">el Colombiano reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38152537\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/yeison-jimenez-billboard-latin-music-118702607.jpg\" alt=\"Yeison Jimenez at Billboard Latin Music Week.\" class=\"wp-image-38152537\"  \/>Colombian singer Yeison Jimenez was killed in a plane crash early Sunday. Billboard via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Five others were killed in the crash, including the singer\u2019s photographer, Weisman Mora, who had posted a poignant final video of the group just before take-off at around 4 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez, one of the most well-known folk music artists in Colombia, had recently revealed his chilling dreams about dying in a plane crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI dreamt three times that we were going to have a plane crash and that I had to tell the pilot to turn around. And when he arrived, he\u2019d say, \u2018Oh, boss, thank goodness you told me because something went wrong, but I fixed it, get in,&#8217;\u201d Jimenez said in an\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ew5t3A_M1VM\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">interview with Colombian TV station Caracol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose were the dreams. And in one of the dreams, I did dreamt that we had died and that we were on the news. And it was the third time I dreamt that. God gave me three signs, and I didn\u2019t understand them, I didn\u2019t get them,\u201d Jimenez said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.84837545;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38152535\" width=\"1024\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/social-media-images-show-crash-118702493.jpg\" alt=\"Plane crash site in Paipa, Boyac\u00e1 with yellow caution tape, smoke, and flames.\" class=\"wp-image-38152535\"  \/>The victims were heading to a concert in Medellin before the fiery crash. X \/ Noticias Uno<\/p>\n<p>In the same interview, he revealed that he had been involved in an emergency landing recently involving the same aircraft, 10 days before his son was due to be born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plane takes off, and as it takes off, I feel something go puff, puff,\u201d he said, adding that he had felt the aircraft start rocking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no speed, we weren\u2019t climbing,\u201d Jimenez said, noting that his cameraman had spotted water coming out of the engine.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia\u2019s Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the crash was under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Civil Aeronautics Authority deeply regrets the accident that occurred in Paipa, Boyac\u00e1, in which six occupants of the N325FA aircraft died, including the artist Yeison Jim\u00e9nez. We express our most sincere condolences to their families, friends, and fans,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Colombian pop star and his entire band died in a plane crash before a show Saturday \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6611,157,9,11,10,6649,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-96439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-colombia","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-plane-crashes","14":"tag-singers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}